Well, I guess it was inevitable.  People think more about small green pieces of paper than they do about something that will help us more in our lifetime than anything else on the planet.

Looks like we’ll be here stuck for a while longer.  Although it didnt have to be that way, my article talks of course about fusion power (what gave it away? was it the title???).

For those who don’t know and perhaps there are many who don’t, fusion power is a source of enormous energy resources that can be generated from combining one of the most abundant elements in our universe: Hydrogen together to create energy.

It isn’t like Fission power, which is to create a chain reaction, but a lot different and safer and far more powerful.  FIssion relys on splitting atoms to produce neutrons, which cascade into other atoms causing them to split, repeatedly, releasing energy at each stage.  Uranium is the element that we use normally for this, when we split it using a single neutron, we get three neutrons each.  For each neutron, you can split another uranium atom.  So basically it works like this, for each atom you split, you get neutrons to split another three, for each of those three, three more each.  You can see how this is great, each atom you split, produces energy, each one you split, creates three splits each, repeatedly this goes out of control, creating a huge fireball (normally called a nuclear explosion).

Thats the problem with fission, you need to reduce the number of atoms split, in order to keep the reaction from running away annihilating everything.  With bombs, this is great, with a power station, it’s not so great.

FUSION, on the other hand, doesnt work in this way, what it does is take two atoms of hydrogen and heat them into a gas with millions of degrees temperature.  Once here, we call this gas a plasma, we contain, heat and increase the pressure on this plasma, until somewhere high above the normal pressures of space, the hydrogen atoms are squeezed together, to such an extent that they merge together, into the next element up from Hydrogen, which is Helium.  When this happens, we get a release of energy.  Multiply that by millions of reactions and you get a large amount of energy.

The only problem is that in order to get to this stage, which is called ignition, uses a huge amount of energy also.  So there are two problems, one to obtain ignition and the second, to get there with the least amount of effort possible.

So, whats all this science for?  The reason I explain it, is that right now, we have a power problem in the planet, we all use too much energy that we’re running out of resources.  The benefit of fusion is that it uses Hydrogen, which is everywhere, I mean, we can never run out of it, not within a million years and in space, you get 1 Hydrogen atom per 1m2.  So, hydrogen is literally everywhere.  we just have to use it for something.

Creating a fusion power plant is expensive and we havent built the first one yet, not one we know can work, continuously, producing energy for us, right now, they are just toys for scientists to play with.  Maybe thats the reason they have no money, cause why invest in something that creates nothing but happy scientists.  The reason is that most of the problems on our planet come from limited resources and limited space.  Fusion would solve that first problem, nothing will ever solve the second one, until we have a way to create warp travel and go past the outside of our solar system, we shall always have that problem.

What has this got to do with bankers? Oh, I don’t know, maybe something to do with the 700 billion dollars the US gave to save their sorry asses and the unbelievable 200, 300 billion we spent in the UK.

Side Note: Where the hell did the UK get that kinda money from? I mean, nurses have no money, teachers have no funds, science goes to waste because of “resource problems”  But when the fat cats get into trouble, 200 billion appears from nowhere, was it lost behind the sofa or something?

Well, the reason is that it costs something like 20 billion for ITER and probably another billion or so for this or that experiment, go google for Hubbard and fusion to find more examples of experiments being done in this area, some of them, reduce the energy required to create fusion to a much lower level.  Why can’t we give them some money and get fusion power within 5 years and not the 100 I saw quoted this week.  All the worlds energy problems solved for 700 billion, or save some fat cat bankers?? Which would you choose?

Why is this so hard for everyone to understand?